So Thursday was nothing short of a grand adventure. Two of my friends and I decided to go for a run, which we often do on Thursdays, and leave all our stuff (cell phones, keys, money, clothes) in a locker in the school library. This seemed like a flawless plan. BUT when we returned from said run at 8, the library was closed. None of us thought it would close that early because our home libraries are open until around 2 am. So we went to the security guard at a different building and he said no one had the key except the librarian, and we just had to wait until tomorrow at 10, when it opened again. We of course didn't believe him because how silly of a system to only have one key to a building...? We saw the president of the university leaving the building just then, so we asked her for help. She said that she had a swipe card that let her into any campus building, which she thought she didn't have with her, but ended up having with her. So we borrowed that, told her we would return it to her after we got our stuff, and went back to the library only to find that it didn't work. We then ran to her apartment to return the card, and she offered us to stay the night at her house if we had no other options (she's really awesome). We said we had a friend who lived on campus, and then we went to said friend's house. We waited for him until he got home, and I called my roommate on his phone, who was luckily home, borrowed a metro ticket from him, and finally made my way home. My two two other friends did the same--luckily the one who lives in a single apartment is the only one of us who brought her key on the run. The other girl and I live in home stays, so we can knock until we're let in. I got home at 10:30, ate dinner, and promptly went to bed. But seriously, what kind of school has only one key to a building?? What if someone got trapped in it and no one had the librarian's number? Sometimes the systems here in France are a little silly. Side note: I did all of this in some crazy 80s spandex and a yellow work out shirt. Let's just say I was getting some bizarre glances on the metro.
Friday was an awesome day, which was wonderful considering the night before. I really needed a hair cut, so I researched some places online, and found an awesome salon where someone blogged that the stylist smokes a cigarette while he cuts your hair and they play crazy funk music. What could get better than that?? They were really nice when I got to the salon, but didn't have room for me for a half an hour. So, I walked around the area (19th arrondissement) and found an amazing park. It would be perfect for picnics--it has this amazing stone veranda on the top of a hill in the middle of a lake! When I came back to the salon, I found out they didn't actually smoke while they cut your hair, but the music was real and they also had crazy neon designs all over the inside. I am definitely going back there.
On Friday, I also went to the Centre Pompidou--The National Museum of Modern Art. We can get in free to any museum because we have decals on our student ID cards that say student of art history, so its wonderful to be able to just go to a museum for an hour or two and see part of it. We went to the modern art section (1909-1960) and it was amazing. One of my favorite things was this drawing/collage of a life size minke whale made out of this swirly patterned paper. Kind of hard to describe, but I unfortunately forgot my camera.
Yesterday, a friend and I returned to the Centre Pompidou because we heard the library there is awesome (and has real opening hours, unlike our library). It was amazing and huge! I have never seen so many people in one place being so quiet! We did some homework there for a long time, and then went back to her apartment where we BOOKED OUR FLIGHTS FOR PORTUGAL AND BARCELONA FOR SPRING BREAK! I am so so excited! We fly into Lisbon, Portugal and are there for five days, and then we fly to Barcelona and are there for five as well.
Later last night we went to an amazing sangria bar, and met up with some other friends there. It was wonderful sangria, and the bar was in this really old basement. It had a very cool atmosphere--there was this beautiful big carved hanging on one of the walls. On the way home, we got some banana nutella crepes (my second time this weekend...).
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